Olivia Wilde thinks the Redskins changed their name

We’re pretty big fans of Olivia Wilde here at TNB, but she seriously fumbled her latest tweet. Wilde, who is from Washington D.C., sent out a tweet Monday night exclaiming that she was glad her hometown football team finally decided to change their name from a racial slur. The actress was presumably referring to the Redskins, as they have caught a lot of heat lately for their racially charged nickname.

If that is in fact the case, she either knows something the rest of us don’t or is completely uninformed. To the best of our knowledge, the Redskins are still the Redskins.

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